MYSTERY MONSTER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21783, 24 April 1934, Page 11

MYSTERY MONSTER

LOCH NESS INHABITANT PHOTOGRAPHS PUBLISHED LONDON. April 22 The Daily Mail publishes photographs of the Loch Ness "monster." The curator of the London Zoo states that if they had been taken in mid-ocean he would say the creature was a sea serpent, but ho cannot see how such a creature entered a fresh water loch. A film of the Loch Ness monster was shown privately at the Phoonyc Theatre, London > early this year. In describing it the Times said:—That part of the film in which the monster appears occupies the screen for only a minute or two. The creature is seen swimming toward the right, getting further away as it travels, and is apparently diving just as it leaves the field of view of the camera. There is here no definite evidence of the small, upraised head and long neck to which several eye-witnesses have testified, but the main mass of the body seems to be preceded by a smaller mass, which liko the rest is partly under and partly on the surface of the water.

The photographers declare that they saw seven or eight humps on the monster's back, and somo of these humps are discernible in -tho film. The most clearly evident movements aro those of a tail or flukes. This appendage is noticeably darker than the body. The photographers describe the general colour of the creature as grey, that, of the tail as black. Indeterminate movements of the water beside tho monster as it swims suggest the action of something in the nature of fins or paddles.